Chapter 699: Gambling on Life
On the balcony of the apartment on Center Street, Wang Xu sat on the sofa and shook the rum in his hand.
In front of him, there is a super-clear picture showing Carmen's figure.
"Anders is quite powerful in the slums, not only controls two-thirds of the chassis of the slums, but also calls the slum sheriff brothers, Carmen goes to save people alone, no matter how you look at it, it's all meat buns and dogs!"
Wang Xu drank red wine and looked at the picture in front of him a little strangely.
In his opinion, Carmen's rescue is a mortal situation, and he really can't think of how Carmen can save people from Anders's casino in front of a dozen younger brothers.
In fact, Carmen himself could not have imagined that he went to save people with a breath in his heart, and he was discouraged halfway through, and he was also in a dilemma.
Who is Anders, that's the boss of the slums, as long as you want to earn a living in the slums, you have to pay the health bill from him, otherwise you won't be able to get along.
Thinking of Anders' strength and ruthlessness, Carmen felt a faint pain in the wound on her shoulder.
That's a thug who dares to shoot without saying a word, and he is crazy, he only has a dagger made of iron sheets, how can he fight him.
Carmen walked very slowly, with a dagger in her arms, her head bowed.
He thought about turning away, whether Buck and Tom were alive or dead, but he gave up again.
Carmen knew she wasn't a good person, fighting, stealing, blackmailing, robbing, doing all kinds of evil.
But he wasn't a white-eyed wolf, Buck and Tom were friends with whom he grew up in the slums, and without the help of the two of them, his life would have been much harder.
Carmen remembers that it was a snowy winter, and it was cold.
He took his sister out to beg, hoping that someone would give him a little bread crumbs, and they were so hungry.
Carmen couldn't remember what year it was, but the children who grew up in the slums never cared what year it was, because they were used to spending each day as if it were their last.
All Carmen remembers is that day, Buck and Tom extorted a child's cake.
It was a cream cake with a thick layer of cream and a cherry on top.
"Who are you, we haven't seen you."
"My name is Carmen, and I live down the street next door to you."
"Do you want to mess with us, we're recruiting and getting ready to do a big job."
"I want you to mess with me, let me be the boss."
"Why?"
"If I'm smart enough to follow me, I'll let you have a lot of cakes."
"Really?"
"Of course, if you agree, we will use this cake as a testimony to our alliance."
"How to witness?"
"How about eating it separately?"
"What a great idea..."
Giving up is just a sentence, but what really lets go is more than ten years of sharing weal and woe, as well as the laughter and laughter of the past.
With the laughter of her childhood in her ears, Carmen's eyes slowly became firm, save people, and she must save people.
"This is it." Hidden behind the alleyway at the intersection, Carmen sneaks her eyes at a casino, like a cheetah hunting.
This casino, which is Anders' main event location, has two floors and only one door in front and back.
The difference is that this door opens on the second floor, and there is no door on the first floor, so if you want to enter the door, you have to climb the stairs to the second floor, and then go down from the second floor to the first floor.
From the outside, there is a little brother guarding the stairs, and no one is allowed to enter except the gamblers.
Moreover, Carmen doesn't know if the two Bucks were brought here, and if they rush in and see that they are not here, then things will be a big deal.
"This gentleman, I have two friends who offended Mr. Anders and were arrested by Mr. Anders's men, they are about fifteen or sixteen years old, one is short and fat, and the other is tall and thin, have they been caught here?"
Instead of acting rashly, Carmen found a roadside stall selling fruit and questioned the middle-aged stall owner.
The middle-aged stall owner sat at the back of the stall reading the newspaper, and when he heard Carmen's words, he didn't raise his head and denied: "I don't know." ”
"Please, you're thinking about it." Carmen pulled a five-cent coin out of his pocket and placed it in front of the stall owner.
Seeing the coin, the stall owner flipped through the newspaper and replied, "A little impressed." ”
"Are you sure?"
A little impression is not enough, Carmen wants to be 100% right.
To make sure of this, Carmen took out another five cents and placed it on the stall owner's cash box.
"To be sure, the men were brought in the afternoon, and about an hour and a half ago, one of them was short and fat, and the other was tall and thin, and it looked like they had been beaten lightly." The stall owner said as he pocketed ten cents.
Carmen was relieved, but he still didn't have a good plan to rescue Buck and his gang from Anders' gang.
After all, he is only one person, and there are more than a dozen of them, and there may even be gamblers on Anders' side.
If you want to save people, you can only outwit and avoid hard encounters to the greatest extent.
"What should I do, Anders is the boss of the slums, the police are on his side, not to mention the little gangsters, I have no one to rely on." Carmen was distressed, this was an unfair contest, and he had no chance of winning in terms of strength.
Thinking like this in his heart, a faint sound of conversation caught his attention.
"I heard that the price of kerosene has been reduced today, and a small keg is only 12 cents, and if there is kerosene, our bakery can close very late."
"Twelve cents, why is it so cheap, wasn't it fifteen cents yesterday?"
"It seems that another kerosene processing plant has opened in the north, and many kerosene merchants who are hoarding goods can't help but start selling their goods."
"Kerosene?"
Carmen turned her head slightly, looking at the couple walking by, and her heart moved faintly.
The emergence of kerosene lit up thousands of households, and the birth of the steam engine brought earth-shaking changes to the industrial model.
Although candle makers smeared kerosene at all costs, and even poured kerosene on death row prisoners to show the harmfulness of kerosene at the stake, they still could not stop the fact that kerosene was cheaper and more economical than candles.
Similarly, because of the advent of kerosene, an ancient profession began to be given a new lease of life, which was called ... Arsonist.
"Boss, give me five soda bottles."
For a penny, Carmen bought five soda bottles, another towel from a store, and a kerosene kerosene.
The combustion effect of kerosene is much lower than that of gasoline, and it can even be described as difficult to ignite.
However, it is difficult to ignite, but it is not impossible to ignite, and it is still extremely dangerous.
Kerosene is poured into a bottle, and then the towel is shredded to make a wick, and a simple Molotov cocktail is made.
Carmen made five Molotov cocktails in one go, but after trying to find that he could carry up to three, any more would be easier for people to see the flaws.
To be on the safe side, Carmen abandoned the remaining two, carrying only three Molotov cocktails with her, and walked towards Anders' casino step by step.
"What for?" At the door of the casino, there were two younger brothers standing at Carmen, shouting at Carmen and asking.
Carmen's heart was beating faster, although these two little brothers were not the ones who were chasing him, he was still a little nervous: "Come to win money, can't you?" ”
"Imp, do you have any money?" The janitor has two duties, one is to stop the poor ghosts, and the other is to prevent people from making trouble.
Obviously, Carmen's fifteen or sixteen-year-old grades, coupled with her thin appearance, did not fit the appearance of a rich person, but more like a poor person who came to find excitement.
"You know, right?"
Carmen didn't say much, just took a few coins out of her pocket and shook them in front of the two.
The two glanced at the iron door behind them.
As for the inspection, this is Mr. Anders's casino, and no one has ever dared to make trouble, and they don't believe that a boy of fifteen or sixteen would have the audacity to make trouble in the casino.
Passing through the door of the casino, Carmen walked all the way down, and he didn't look for the Buck duo because he had a better way.
All the way to the gambling hall on the first floor, Carmen looked around and found that the room was crowded with gamblers, but Anders was not there.
Carmen's sneaky gaze attracted the attention of several younger brothers in the gambling hall.
One of them, the curly-haired young man who had almost stabbed him to death, stared at Carmen for a moment, and whispered to his companion, "This man seems to be the man the boss is looking for." ”
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, it's him, I remember the mole on the corner of his mouth."
As he spoke, the curly-haired young man pulled out the iron spike from his waist and walked towards Carmen from the crowd.
Carmen had been scanning the surroundings, and when she saw the curly-haired youth, she didn't hurry back and laughed, she flipped over a gambling table in a few steps, and said loudly, "Gentlemen, it's time for the carnival!" ”
Quiet...
The gamblers around looked at Carmen stupidly, and that gaze was like looking at an idiot again.
"Come down, lad, before I get to kick your ass."
"Get down, whoever told you to go up, hurry up and get down."
In the face of the shouting crowd, Carmen blinked playfully, and as if by magic, she took out a Molotov cocktail from under her clothes and approached the kerosene lamp on the gambling table: "Attention, gentlemen, this is a Molotov cocktail full of kerosene, is anyone willing to bet with me?" I bet I could light a Molotov cocktail and smash it on the table before you get me down! ”